A Book of Days

Resumen del libro

A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train. More than 365 images chart Smith's singular aesthetic - inspired by her wildly popular InstagramIn 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message "Hello Everybody!" Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith started posting images from her phone including portraits of her kids, her radiator, her boots, and her Abyssinian cat, Cairo. Followers felt an immediate affinity with these miniature windows into Smith's world, photographs of her daily coffee, the books she's reading, the graves of beloved heroes - William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Sylvia Plath, Simone Weil, Albert Camus.

Over time, a coherent story of a life devoted to art took shape, and more than a million followers responded to Smith's unique aesthetic in images that chart her passions, devotions, obsessions, and whims. Original to this book are vintage photographs: anniversary pearls, a mother's keychain, and a husband's Mosrite guitar. Here, too, are never-before-seen photos of life on and off the road, train stations, obscure cafes, a notebook always nearby.

In wide-ranging yet intimate daily notations, Smith shares dispatches from her travels around the world. With 365 photographs, taking you through a single year, A Book of Days is a new way to experience the expansive mind of the visionary poet, writer, and performer. Hopeful, elegiac, playful - and complete with an introduction by Smith that explores her documentary process - A Book of Days is a timeless offering for deeply uncertain times, an inspirational map of an artist's life.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;P x{0026}lt;B Patti Smithx{0026}lt;/B (Chicago, 1946) es escritora, cantante y artista visual. Obtuvo un gran reconocimiento en la década de 1970 con la difusión de su poesía y su rock. Ha publicado doce álbumes, entre ellos x{0026}lt;I Horsesx{0026}lt;/I , considerado como uno de los cien mejores de todos los tiempos por la revista x{0026}lt;I Rolling Stonex{0026}lt;/I . Smith realizó su primera exposición de dibujo en el Gotham Book Mart en 1973, fue representada por la Robert Miller Gallery durante tres décadas y sus muestras retrospectivas han tenido lugar en el Andy Warhol Museum, la Fundación Cartier y el Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Entre sus libros cabe destacar la historia de su relación con el fotógrafo Robert Mapplethorpe: x{0026}lt;I Éramos unos niños x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2010), galardonada con el National Book Award, x{0026}lt;I Wittx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Babelx{0026}lt;/I ,x{0026}lt;I Tejiendo sueños x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2014), x{0026}lt;I El mar de Coral x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2012),x{0026}lt;I Augurios de inocencia x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2019), x{0026}lt;I M Train x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2016),x{0026}lt;I Devoción x{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2018), x{0026}lt;I El año del Monox{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2020) y x{0026}lt;I El libro de los díasx{0026}lt;/I (Lumen, 2023). En 2005, el ministro de Cultura francés le concedió el título de Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, el mayor honor otorgado a un artista por la República francesa. Entró en el Rock x{0026}amp; Roll Hall of Fame en 2007. Smith se casó con el músico Fred Sonic Smith en Detroit en 1980. Tuvieron un hijo, Jackson, y una hija, Jesse. La autora, que en 2020 recibió el Premio al Servicio Literario Pen America, reside en Nueva York.x{0026}lt;/P